Email this article Recent Insights into a Manuscript of Ornate Poetry from Toyoq: A new Fragment of Mātṛceṭa’s Varṇārhavarṇa
- Authors: Shomakhmadov S.H.1, Hartmann J.2
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Affiliations:
- Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Institute of Indology and Tibetology, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
- Issue: Vol 8, No 2 (2022)
- Pages: 58-70
- Section: Original Papers
- URL: https://journals.eco-vector.com/2410-0145/article/view/112468
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.55512/wmo112468
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The article continues a series of publications of the Sanskrit manuscript fragments written in the Proto-Śāradā script, kept in the Serindia Collection of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The authors introduce into scientific circulation a fragment of the Varṇārhavarṇa, the work of the famous Buddhist thinker and poet Mātṛceṭa. The article provides the paleographic analysis of the manuscript fragment, as well as brief information about the author, his works, the Varṇārhavarṇa structure. The article provides transliteration and translation of the fragment.
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Safarali H. Shomakhmadov
Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: safaralihshom@mail.ru
Russian Federation
Jens-Uwe Hartmann
Institute of Indology and Tibetology, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich
Author for correspondence.
Email: juhartmann@lmu.de
Germany, Munich
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